Cigarette-paper holder.



J. H. PLEASANCE.

CIGARETTE PAPER HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED OCT. n, 1917.

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INVENTOR fiaephiifi JOSEPH H. PLEASANCE, 0F VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA.

CIGARETTE-PAPER HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 24, 1918.

Application filed October 11, 1917. Serial No. 195,946.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH H. PLEASANCE, a citizen of the Dominion of Canada, residing at Vancouver, in the Province of British Columbia, Canada, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cigarette- Paper Holders, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a holder for a roll of cigarette paper, from which roll the desired length for a cigarette may be withdrawn and torn oli as required. The device is designed as a convenient and inexpensive novelty for cigarette smokers who make their own cigarettes.

The invention is particularly described in the following specifications, reference being made to the drawings by which it is accompanied, in which:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the holder with the end cap removed showing the paper roll within it, and the paper partially withdrawn through the slit.

Fig. 2 is a similar view with the end cap in position and the paper withdrawn from the roll and being severed therefrom.

Fig 3, a longitudinal section showing a modification in the paper cutting line.

The device comprises a casing 2, preferably cylindrical, formed of thin sheet metal or other suitable material. longitudinally slit, as at 3, and the edges of the slit may or may not overlap. The casing has a cap or cover 5 closing the opening through which the roll 6 or other supply of paper is introduced. Connected at 7 to one end of the casing 2 and extending lengthwise of it beyond the other end, is a thin flexible line 8.

The free end of the supply of paper within the casing is passed outward through the slit 3, and the amount 10 required to form a cigarette being withdrawn beyond the position of the attachment 7 of the line 8, that line is applied lengthwise on the casing and the paper is drawn tightly over it, as shown in Fig. 2. The line 8 is then drawn outward from the casing and through the This casing is tightly drawn paper 10 in the manner shown.

This manner of tearing the paper may be accomplished against one of the edges of the slit 3 but it would not leave a finger hold by which another length of paper might be withdrawn from the slit, hence the reason for attaching the line 8 at a slight distance from the slit.

Where the line 8 is elastic it is carried endless through each end of the casing and has a loop 11 at one end by which it may be drawn away from the cylinder to cut the paper, as shown in Fig. 3.

The paper can be sold cheaper in a roll or strip than when out into pieces the required size, and the device forms an inexpensive and attractive novelty. If considered desirable the paper may be water-marked to indicate the ordinary amount required to be out OK for a cigarette, or if the papers are desired to be gummed the strip of gum or other adherent will gage the amountto be cut oil.

The essential feature of the invention lies in the provision for retaining a continuous strip of thin cigarette paper within a casing from which it may be withdrawn the free end cut off as required.

Having now particularly described my invention, I hereby declare that what I claim as new and desire to be protected in by Letters Patent, is:

A cigarette paper holder, comprising a cylindrical casing of thin material adapted to receive a roll of cigarette paper and lengthwise slit to permit of the ends of the paper being passed outward, said casing having an open end and a cap removably fitting that end, an endless resilient line passed through the ends of the casing and extending from end to end in contact with it, said line having a loop by which the outer part of it may be drawn from contact with the cylinder to sever the outwardly projecting end of the paper from the roll.

In testimony whereof I afliX my signature.

JOSEPH H. PLEASANCE.

Gopies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. 0." 

